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PG3: Reading List

Set texts: as above

Secondary reading:

A. Coleman, Eça de Queirós and European Realism E. Miné (ed.) 150 Anos com Eça de Queirós. Anais do III Encontro Internacional de Queirosianos C. Reis Semana de Estudos Queirosianos A. Veríssimo Dicionário da Mensagem: Figuras Históricas, Mitos, Símbolos, Conceitos M.J. de Lancastre O Essencial sobre Fernando Pessoa John McEwen, Paula Rego. Fiona Bradley, Paula Rego. Hilary Owen, "Fairies and Witches in Hélia Correia." Women, Literature and Culture in the Portuguese-speaking World. Ed. Cláudia Pazos Alonso. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 1996. 85-104. Hilary Owen, "Feast or Faminism: Women, Revolution and Class in Works by Hélia Correia and Olga Harry Bernstein, Alexandre Herculano (1810-1877): Portugal's Prime Historian and Historical Novelist Russell Hamilton, Voices from an Empire Patrick Chabal The Postcolonial Literature of Lusophone Africa

Brazilian Modernism

Andrade, Mário de. “Prefácio Interessantíssimo”in Paulicéia Desvairada. Poesias Completas (São Paulo: Ed. Martins, 1966)  

Avila, Affonso. O Modernismo. São Paulo: Ed. Perspectiva,1975. pp. 13-29  

Bosi, Alfredo. História concisa da literatura brasileira. São Paulo: Ed. Cultrix,1973. pp. 373-429  

Brito, Mario da Silva. Poesia do Modernismo. Rio de Janeiro: Ed. Civlização Brasileira, 1968  

Candido Antônio & J. Aderaldo Castello, Presença da literatura Brasileira III: O modernismo  

Coutinho, Afrânio. An Introduction to Literature in Brasil. Trans. Gregory Rabassa. New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1969.   

Johnson, Randal. “Brazilian Modernism: An Idea Out of Place?” in Modernism and Its Margins. Reinscribing Cultural Modernity from Spain and Latin America. Eds. Anthony Geist and Josê Monleon, New York: Garland, 1999.   

Martins, Wilson. O modernismo. São Paulo: Ed. Cultrix, 1965.   

Martin, Wilson. The Modernist Idea. A Critical Survey of Brazilian Writing in the Twentieth Century. New York: New York University Press, 1970.  

Nist, John. The Modernist Movement in Brazil. Austin and London: University of Texas Press, 1967.   

Pontiero, Giovanni. An Anthology of Brazilian Modernist Poetry  

Treece, David and Mike Gonzalez. The Gathering of Voices. London: Verso, 1996. pp. 65-90.  

Chanchada  

Bordwell, David and Kristen Thompson, Film Art. An Introduction. New York: Mcgraw and Hill, 2001, pp. 94-110  

Dennison, Stephanie and Lisa Shaw, Popular Cinema in Brazil (Manchester: Manchester UP, 2004).   

Johnson Randal and Robert Stam, Eds. Brazilian Cinema. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996  

King, John (2000), Magical Reels: A History of Cinema in Latin America, New York & London: Verso.  

Shaw, Lisa and Stephanie Dennison, Brazilian National Cinema, London: Routledge, 2004  

Shaw, Lisa,“The Brazilian Chanchada and Hollywood paradigms (1930-1959),”Framework 44 (1), 2003: 70-83  

Stam Robert and Joao Luiz Vieira, “Parody and Marginality. The Case of Brazilian Cinema,”Framework (28) 1985: 20-49   

Shaw L. (2006) Vargas on Film: From the Newsreel to the Chanchada. In: Hentschke J. R. ed(s). Vargas and Brazil: New Perspectives. New York, Palgrave Macmillan  

Stam, Robert, Tropical Multiculturalism. A Comparative History of Race in Brazilian Cinema and Culture (Durham NC: Duke UP, 1997): 79-107  

Stam, Robert, Subversive Pleasures. Bakhtin, Cultural Criticism and Film. (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press): 122-157  

Williams, Daryl, Culture Wars in Brazil: The First Vargas Regime, 1930-1945(Durham: Duke UP, 2001).  

Cidade de Deus

Nagib, Lúcia, Brazil On Screen.Cinema Novo, New Cinema, Utopia. (London: IB Tauris, 2007)  

Nagib, Lúcia, The New Brazilian Cinema. London: IB Tauris, 2003.   

  Marcelo Melo, João “Aesthetics and Ethics in City of God” Third Text, September 2004.  

Nagib, Lúcia, Talking Bullets, “The Language of Violence in City of God,” Third Text, Vol. 18, Issue 3, 2004, pp. 239-250  

Thanouli, Eleftheria “Narration in World Cinema: Mapping the flows of formal Exchange in the era of globalization” New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film. Volume 6 (1), 2008: 5-15  

Ventura, Zuenir, Cidade Partida. São Paulo. Companhia das Letras, 1994.  

Vieira, Else “Cidade de deus. Challenges to Hollywood, Steps to the Constant Gardner” in Deborah Shaw, Contemporary Latin American Cinema. Breaking into the Global Market (London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007): 51-66  

Vieira, Else Ed., City of God in Several Voices. Brazilian Cinema as Social Action. Nottingham, Critical, Cultural and Communications Press, 2005.  

Carmen Miranda  

Augusto, Sérgio, “Hollywood Looks at Brazil: From Carmen Miranda to Moonraker” in Brazilian Cinema Eds. Randal Johnson and Robert Stam, New York:Columbia University Press, 1996  

Beverley Ray, Robert. A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema. 1930-1980. New Jersey: Princeton UP, 1985.   

Dennison, S and Shaw, L (2004) Popular Cinema in Brazil, 1930-2001. Manchester University Press, Manchester  

López, Ana M. “Are all Latins from Manhattan? Hollywood, Etnography and Cultural Colonialism” in John King, Ana M. López and Manuel Alvarado eds. Mediating Two Worlds. Cinematic Encounters in the Americas. London: BFI, 1992.   

Roberts, Shari. The Lady in the Tutti Frutti Hat. Carmen Miranda. A spectacle of Ethnicity. Cinema Journal 32.3, 1993.   

Shaw, Lisa. Carmen Miranda. London: BFI, 2013.  

Shaw L and Dennison S (2007) Brazilian National Cinema. National Cinemas. Routledge, Abingdon and New York  

Shaw L. (2006) 'The Transnational Journey of the Celluloid Baiana: Round trip Rio-LA'. In: Cooke P ed(s). World Cinema's 'Dialogues' with Hollywood. Basingstoke and New York, Palgrave Macmillan.  

Shaw L and Conde M. (2005) Brazil through Hollywood's Gaze: From the Silent Screen to the Good Neighbor Policy Era. In: Shaw L and Dennison S ed(s). Latin American Cinema: Essays on Modernity, Gender and National Identity. Jefferson, NC, McFarland.  

Woll, Allen. The Latin Image in American Film. LA: UCLA, 1977.   

Nelson Pereira dos Santos 

Diegues, Carlos, “Cinema Novo” in Johnson and Stam, Brazilian Cinema, New York: Columbia University Press, 1996, 64-68 

Johnson, Randal,“Brazilian Cinema Novo,” Bulletin of Latin American Research, Vol. 3, No. 2, 1984, pp. 95-106 

Johnson, Randal and Robert Stam, “The Cinema of Hunger: Nelson Pereira dos Santos’ VidasSecas,” in Johnson and Stam, Brazilian Cinema, New York: Columbia University Press, 1996, 120-128 

King, John (2000), Magical Reels: A History of Cinema in Latin America, New York & London: Verso. 

Martin, Michael T. New Latin American Cinema, Vols 1 and 2, Wayne State University Press, 1997.   

Rocha,Glauber, “An Aesthetics of Hunger” in Johnson and Stam, Brazilian Cinema, New York: Columbia University Press, 1996, pp. 68-72 

Sadlier, Darlene, Nelson Pereira dos Santos, University of Illinois Press, 2003.   

Shaw, Lisa and Stephanie Dennison, Brazilian National Cinema, London: Routledge, 2004 

Walter Salles 

Fay, Jennifer and Justus Nieland. “Film Noir and the Culture of Internationalism” in Film Noir. Hard Boiled Modernity and the Cultures of Globalization. London: Taylor and Francis, 2010 

Johnson, Randal “Post Cinema Novo Brazilian Cinema” in Traditions in World Cinema, Eds. Linda Badley, R. Barton Palmer, Stephen J. Schneider (New Jersey: Rutgers UP, 2006): 117-128 

Nagib, Lúcia, The New Brazilian Cinema. London: IB Tauris, 2003. pp.xvii-xxvii 

Nagib, Lúcia, 'Back to the margins in search of the core: Foreign Land's geography of exclusion', in Dina Iordanova, David Martin-Jones & Belén Vidal (eds), Cinema at the Periphery: Industries, Narratives, Iconography. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2010. 

Sadlier, Darlene, “Leaving Home in Three Films by Walter Salles” Symploke Vol. 15 (1-2) 2007: 125-39 

Shaw, Deborah, Contemporary Latin American Cinema. Breaking into the Global Market (London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007)